Word: beast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Folk art serves religious ends because folk have faith: the home requires icons, the clapboard meeting hut needs a picture of Jesus or Jonah or the Horned Beast of Revelation, and private grace will...
...meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay or Autun to their didactic grotesqueries...
...generations before Christiane F., a boy about her age watched a carnival's grotesque strong man break his chains-and another beast roamed wild and free through Germany. The boy, David Singer (Mario Fischel), is Jewish, and the film David is another small step in Germany's reluctant search for understanding of the Nazi period. Families like David's were forced into public humiliation, then into hiding, then-if they were lucky-out of the Reich. Director Peter Lilienthal adds little to the Holocaust "literature," content to play family ironies against social enormities in a genre that...
...renown of the victim or the ghastliness of the crime. But when Richard Adan, 22, a budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory for the defense. Said Defense Lawyer Ivan Fisher: "When...
Still, Abbott will return to the belly of the beast for a long time to come. He has eleven years to serve for parole violations. The manslaughter conviction will bring an additional 8½-to 25-year sentence, and if he is deemed a "persistent violent felony offender" at a hearing this month, he could go back to jail for life...